Once upon a time a ferry boat was the only way to get to West Vancouver from Vancouver, BC. Now it’s an option again thanks to Coastal Link Ferries which is expanding its Bowen Island commuter run to include West Vancouver.
Starting Tuesday, Nov. 17 (and not Nov. 2 as previously reported), Captain Ihab Shaker will [...]
The world divides into sugar-and-butter people and salt-and-butter people.
Those who, like me, fall into the latter category do not heed the siren call of those bags of little chocolate bars that seem to be everywhere at this time of year.
We are not tempted to tiptoe into our sleeping children’s rooms and steal from their trick-or-treat [...]
You live in Vancouver as long as I have, you get to know two things:
1. Rain happens. Get over it.
2. Don’t buy cheap umbrellas.
When I blogged a while back about how to face rain like a local, I mentioned my affection for my Cheeky Umbrella–a strong-but-pretty parasol designed by local girl Jen Zurowski who’d had [...]
Okay: that was really hard.
When I asked you guys to “show me your passion” to win an all-inclusive weekend in Tofino, BC during the upcoming O’Neill Cold Water Classic, I had no idea how you would rise to the challenge!
I got the most amazing poems, photos, videos, tweets, blog posts, heartfelt pleas and borderline erotica [...]
Time didn’t allow for me to attend the travel panel at this year’s Blog World and New Media Expo in Las Vegas, but the beauty of social media is that it came to me instead via Twitter and RSS.
I know a lot of people reading here work in or around the travel industry, so I thought [...]
I love the fact that two of the three winners in my recent contest for the Top Table restaurant cookbooks are guys! (Sorry for the delay in disclosing the winners BTW–my hubby’s down with H1N1 and my nursing duties have slowed me down a little.)
I used random.org to pick the winners from everyone who left [...]
I think most surfers flunked out of physics in high school.
Once, many Octobers ago in Tofino, BC, I watched from my hotel room balcony as the wild Pacific waves smashed a driftwood log into millions of tiny matchsticks on the shores of Chesterman Beach. It took about 20 seconds. I didn’t need the lesson twice.
So [...]
FOX’s highly addictive brain-candy series Hell’s Kitchen (featuring chef-tyrant Gordon Ramsay) is winding up its sixth season tonight, and this round’s lucky winner gets a plum gig as head chef at swanky Araxi (under executive chef James Walt) just in time for the 2010 Winter Games.
If you can’t make it to tonight’s viewing party in Whistler, here’s [...]
Here at TheseBoots we appreciate the wandering spirit, so we’d like to introduce you to a couple of young Canadian university students who have found a way to have their travel cake and eat it too.
These kids don’t exactly blend:
Michael Beaty is a six-foot-tall redhead currently on exchange from the University of British Columbia in [...]
The Georgia Straight, in its recent “Best of” edition, wryly suggested that “total denial” was the best coping strategy for Vancouverites during BC’s upcoming Olympic games: just ignore the party in your living room and get on with normal life.
Well, if your normal life includes snow sports, you may find a lot of sense in [...]
